(At Takato's house)
"Phew that was a close one, if you hadn't shown up, we would have been in serious trouble."Takato said.
"Whatever me and Renamon could've handled that overgrown ghost, but Thanks anyways Henry." Rica said.
"Sheesh you try to save a girl and all they can say is I could have done it myself." He said amused. "whatever, are all of you okay?" He asked.
"Yeah." They both said, "but I'm not so sure about our digimon." Takato finished. Both Renamon, and Guilmon had sustained harsh injuries and had reverted back to their in-training forms to regenerate.
"Well I sure did a good job kicking that Ghost's butt didn't I, wait do ghosts even have butts?" Said Terrirmon.
"Well anyways, what was up with that Digimon, it seemed unusually strong for a champion level didn't it, I mean two rookies should be strong enough to take out a low level champion?" Henry asked.
Neither Takato nor Rika was listening to Henry, they were holding the tiny digimon in their arms looking at each other. Takato reached over an placed an arm around her.
Henry sat there feeling more and more uncomfortable he felt like he was intruding in on something. "Well I better be heading home, I hope you guys will take it easy for a few days, and your not listening anyways."
"Yeah see yah later Henry." Takato yelled as Henry walked out.
Takato and Rika walked downstairs and were caught by His mom. "Well hi Rika I didn't know you were here, how are you?" She asked.
"Oh I'm fine and. I trust that you are as well, I was just leaving actually." Rika answered.
"Oh nonsense it's awfully dark, why don't you just spend the night." She said.
"Well if you really think it's alright I would love to hang out over here, I'll just need to call my mom. may I use your phone?" Rika asked. She walked over too the phone with a big smile on her face.
Takato's mom smiled at her son, he was starring in at Rika had a matching grin on his face. "So how's your day been son, anything interesting happen, anything with a girl?" His mom asked knowingly.
This brought Takato out of his trance, "what, ummm no, just a normal day I guess." He said nervously.
"Mmmhhhm." She said not buying it for a second. She decide to just drop it for now.
Rika ran back and hugged Takato, before saying that she was allowed to stay.
and returned the hug, together they walked up the stairs, and into his room.
"So, What should we do, you wanna watch a movie or something?" Rika asked.
"Takato!" Guilmon Tackled him with a hug.
Rika was laughing, which made Takato smile, she didn't laugh very often.
(Somewhere in the city deep underground in a laboratory)
"So the dark Bakemon failed you, well your in luck, your old friend has finally stopped resisting the darkification process, and so I present you with this." Said a shady voice. Out of a tube a clawed hand appeared, the teen standing next to the professor smiled evily,"well it's about time welcome to the world Dark Agumon." Said the teen. The Digimon snarled at him disobediently and used its pepper breath.
The teen ducked and returned the digimon into his D-power.
"So my dark tamer what will you do now that you have Agumon?" The professor asked.
"You just keep making Stronger digimon and leave the rest of it to us." Came another voice,the unknown tamer looked inside another tube where a blue digimon was fighting to get out to no avail. "So I take it that my partner isn't ready yet correct."
"Afraid not, he's still resisting the treatment."said the scientist.
"Well that's fine, me and dark Agumon can handle those weaklings ourselves, let's go partner
Raaaaawr" it answered.
(Back in Takato's room)
"So the digimon are asleep, your parents are getting ready for bed, maybe it's time for us to catch a few winks." She said.
Takato smiled, he was trying to think of sleeping arrangements when she flopped into his bed, he saw this and laughed a small chuckle before going to his closet. While in there he grabbed his extra pillow and blanket and began to lay the stuff on the floor into a Makeshift bed.
"Rica watched him do this and rolled her eyes, "Takato, you really can't take a hint can you(okay this is not what a few of you are thinking)?"she asked.
"I don't follow your question."he said.
"You know you don't need to sleep on the floor, I wouldn't mind some company up here and it is your bed."she said.
"So what you are saying is, you want me to lay beside you, sounds fine to me."Takato said nervously.
She rolled her eyes and nodded.
He got in next to her, they both fell asleep witin Minuets.
Later that night Takato was awoken from a wonderful dream by Renamon. "Come"she said "we need to talk."
Renamon took hold of Takato gently like a newborn kitten and jumped out the window grabbing the top of it and flipping onto the roof, they landed without a sound. She stayed quiet for a few seconds before she began to talk. "Takato I need a favor, I must return to the digital world to consult with the sovereigns, and I must go alone."
"Wait why are you the only one going, and what's the favor you need?"asked Takato.
"I don't know why it hast to be me, but I need you to watch out for Rica, she is strong but I would Just feel better knowing her lover is protecting her."
That word "lover" caught him off guard and almost caused a painful fall. He recomposed himself and said, "that word is a little strong for two young teens, I'm more like her boyfriend."
"Well do you love her?" Renamon asked.
"Yes."
"And she loves you, does this not make you lovers?" Renamon asked.
Takato remained silent.
The she-fox just nodded. "Now I must be off tell Rica about my departure when she wakes up." She said this and made for the digi-portal in the park. She quickly returned to see a straight faced Takato tapping his foot.
"Sorry I was in such a hurry I forgot." She dropped him in the room and he laid down next to Rika and fell back into his dreams.